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(No Model.)

S. RAY. Goal Hod.

No. 233,697. Patented Oct. 26,1880.

NrPEIERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. 0 cv UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM S. BAY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COAL-HOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,697, dated October 26, 1880.

Application filed April 5, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. RAY, of the city and county of San Francisco, and. State of California, have invented an Improved Goal-Hod; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the construction of coal-hods in separate pieces; and it consists in the construction of the parts as hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure 1 is a view of my hod complete, showing the manner of crimping or bending the lugs upon the bottom to secure them and close the opening. Fig. 2 is a view of the separate parts. Fig. 3 shows the manner of nesting the hods. Fig. 4 is a section of the hod, showing the manner of fastening the body of the hod to the bottom.

In the shipping of light bulky articles considerable cost for freight is entailed by reason of the space occupied, and coal-hods with their flaring bottoms and the projecting side handle could not be economically packed. If they are shipped in the knockdown or incomplete form they cannot be japanned or finished, as the finish would be spoiled in putting the hod together.

My invention is intended to remedy this, and to enable me to pack or nest coal-hods, so that a dozen complete hods may be packed in a space not larger than would ordinarily be occupied by two hods, by forming the projecting parts separately, and providing means for uniting them without the aid of skilled labor after they arrive at their destination.

A is the body of my hod, and B is the bail by which it is lifted and carried. 0 is the bottom proper, and D is the fiarin g base, which projects below the bottom, and upon which the hod stands. E is the controlling-handle, which projects from the rear side of the body of the hod.

The body A has its lower edge formed with projecting lugs F, all around it at equal intervals. The bottom 0 is secured permanently to or formed with the flarin g base D, and slots G are made at the junction of the bottom and the base, of a width just sufficient to admit the projections F from the body, with which they are made to. correspond. In forming these slots the cut is made on one side and the two ends, so that a short lip of metal, a, will be punched downward on the inside edge of each slot. When the body of the hod is to be united to the bottom and base the lugs F are slipped vertically through their corresponding slots, so as to project all around the bottom. They are then folded down inwardly over the lips a, forming a short curve or crimp, as shown in Fig. 1. This method of securing the body to the bottom will prevent the lugs from being straightened out or loosened, so as to prevent the separation of the two parts; and it also serves to close the slot, so that particles of dust and dirt from the interior of the hod will not be permitted to escape.

The bottom may be made of cast or wrought metal, as desired. If made of cast metal my invention provides a neat and serviceable method of joining the sheet-metal body to the cast-metal base or bottom.

When my hods are to be shipped or transported any distance they are made up with the parts here described separate, but ready to be put together. The bodies A are then set one within the other, so that the rims will nearly or quite come together. The bottoms and basesare also nested together, and may be placed inside the nest of bodies, while the handles will occupy but a small space within the upturned bases. When the hods reach their destination they are put together, as heretofore described.

By my construction I am enabled to finish the hod, paint or japan it, so as to be complete, and when it arrives at its destination it may be put together without in any manner injuring the finish.

I am aware that bodies and bottoms ofcoalhods have been made in separate pieces 5 and I am also aware that these have been secured together by means of lips on the body fitting 5 into slots made in the rim attached to the body; but this construction is objectionable, as i t brings the body outside of the bottom, and allows the coal-dust to sift out between the body and the rim.

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By my improved construction I place the tion of the base, and the doWnWardly-prqeot body on the bottom Within the rim, and thereing lips a, over which lugs F, from the body, by pre ent the sifting through of any dust. may be bent or orimped, so as to unite the two Having thus explained my invention, What and close the opening, substantially as herein '5 5 I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letdescribed.

ters Patent, is- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my In a conl'hod having the bottom and bas hand. formed separately from the body, and adapted WVM. S. RAY. to be united to it by lugs from the body, the \Vitnesses: 10 bottom 0, having slots Gr formed around the FRANK A. BROOKS,

periphery of the bottom Within the upper por- H. F. DEXTER. 

